Creel.



R. H. BRAUCH.

Patented Nov. 13, 1917.

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WITNESS UNITED sTATEs PATENT orrroga.

ROBERT H. BRAUGH, or HALEDON, :NEW JERSEY.

CREEL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 13, 191 *7.

Application filed May 10, 1917. Serial No. 167,648.

a creel for use in warping which shall haveV provision at both sides thereof for receiving warp supply spools and so constructed that while the warp is being delivered from the spools at one side thereof the other side may be equipped with freshly filled spools and the warp threads thereof reeded and otherwise made substantially ready, upon reversing the Creel side for side, to continue the warping without undue delay when the rst set of spools becomes eX- hausted. To this end my invention consists in a creel having means to hold warp spools arranged in two sets, one at each side thereof, and a pair of warp -guiding means arranged to be movable on the creel frame each into and out of the plane of progress of the warp from the creel, so that while one is in said plane and functioning with reference to the set of spools to which it appertains the other may be disposed out of said plane and hence out of the way of the threads being delivered to the warping machine from the said set of spools. The guiding means preferably corresponds, as herein shown and described, to the usual construction in that each consists of a reed and a cross-bar and is arranged at the top of the frame, the movement thereof with reference to the plane of progress of the warp being Consequently up and down.

In the accompanying drawing,

Figure l is a side elevation of a creel embodying my invention and showing the warp being taken from the set of spools at one side of the same under the control of the corresponding guiding means, the other side being in condition to receive a fresh set of spools and have the threads thereof reeded while the warp is progressing with reference to the threads of the first set of spools;

Fig. 2Vis a fragmentary elevation of one side of the creel; and

Fig. 3 is an enlarged end elevation of the upper part of the creel showing one guiding means elevated and the other depressed.

a is the usual frame, the same having according to this invention two sets of skewers b, one at each side thereof, to receive spools or bobbins c. The skewers at one side of the creel in Fig. l are shown filled with bobbins, the threads progressing therefrom in the usual plane of progress Z of the warp toward the warping machine (not shown). In the present instance there are shown lat the top of the frame two cross-beams c, one

at each side of the frame. The warp guiding means for the two sets of spools are arranged on these two cross-beams, one on each, and as they are substantially alike a descriptiony for one will serve for both.

Hinged to the top of the frame, as by hinges f, vso as to swing outwardlyand downwardly from the working or warp guiding position, is a pair of brackets g which are rigidly connected by an elongated plate or board it secured thereto by screws z'. Inset in the outer edge of this board is a hori- Zontal cross-barV A7', suitably secured thereto. The reed c is secured to the inner face of the board 7i, preferably so as to converge downwardly with reference thereto; a practical construction relating to the attachment of the reed to the board is shown in the drawing and consists in forming a longitudinal cross-sectionally angular groove Z in the inner face of the board, setting the lower edge of the reed therein, and then securing the reed in place by screws fm. This construction gives the desired spacing between the cross-bar j' and the reed in the warp plane.

The form of the brackets is such that when the structure comprising the same, board l1., cross-bar j and reed is inworking position the said structure somewhat overhangs the corresponding side of the creel frame, resting at that time on the top of the beam e, and when said .structure is swung down, resting then against a suitable stop a, the reed projects laterally well outwardly of the cross-bar .7' (left of Fig. l).

To hold each guiding means in the elevated position I attach at one or each end thereof a hook 0 adapted to engage an eye p on the frame.

In the use of the improved creel, the skewers at one side of the same being filled with spools and the guiding means appertaining thereto being elevated as shown at the right in Fig. l, the warp proceeds from said spools up over the corresponding crossbar y' and through the corresponding reed 7c; at this time the guiding means for the other side of the creel is depressed out of the plane of progress (l of the warp, so as not to interfere therewith. `While the warpingis proceeding with respect to the threads from the set of spools mentioned, the empty spools can be removed from the skewers at the other side of the Creel frame and replaced with filled ones, whereupon the threads from these spools are passed through the reed of the corresponding guiding means, z'. e., outwardly of the corresponding cross-bar j.

Tshethreading of the reed will be facilitated' byfresorting to a well-known expedient consisting in tying their endsl to the eut-offr1 end portions r/ of previously warped threads left threaded through the reed. Then the warp has been completed with respect to the set of spools at the right inFig. l, the creel is reversed, side for side, and a fresh set of spools, withvthe threads thereof all'reeded, nowloeing` in operative position for warping, the guiding means appertaining to said set .Letters Patent is l. A reversible warping creel including an upright frame, means at opposite sides thereof to receive warp spools, and separate warpguiding means arranged on the creel frame and each being movable in an up and down direction into and out of the plane of prog ress of' the warp from the Creel.

2. A reversible warping Creel includingan upr ght f fame, means at opposite sides thereof to receive warp spools, and separate warpguiding meansY arranged on the creel frame and each being movable pivotally on anaxis parallel with and into and out of the plane of progress ofthe. warp from the Creel.

In testimony whereofA aiix my signature.

ROBERT H. BRA'UGH Copiesofrgth/is patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

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